Redox flow batteries for the storage of renewable energy: A review

P Alotto, M Guarnieri, F Moro - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The need for grid-connected energy storage systems will grow worldwide in the next future
due to the expansion of intermittent renewable energy sources and the inherent request for …

Challenges and status of ITER conductor production

A Devred, I Backbier, D Bessette… - Superconductor …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Taking the relay of the large Hadron collider (LHC) at CERN, ITER has become the largest
project in applied superconductivity. In addition to its technical complexity, ITER is also a …

Superconductors for fusion: a roadmap

N Mitchell, J Zheng, C Vorpahl, V Corato… - Superconductor …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
With the first tokamak designed for full nuclear operation now well into final assembly (ITER),
and a major new research tokamak starting commissioning (JT60SA), nuclear fusion is …

Proposal for a definitive search for GUT-scale QCD axions

L Brouwer, S Chaudhuri, HM Cho, J Corbin… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The QCD axion is a leading dark matter candidate that emerges as part of the solution to the
strong CP problem in the Standard Model. The coupling of the axion to photons is the most …

Stable, predictable and training-free operation of superconducting Bi-2212 Rutherford cable racetrack coils at the wire current density of 1000 A/mm2

T Shen, E Bosque, D Davis, J Jiang, M White… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
High-temperature superconductors (HTS) could enable high-field magnets stronger than is
possible with Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn, but two challenges have so far been the low engineering …

Superconducting accelerator magnets based on high-temperature superconducting Bi-2212 round wires

T Shen, L Garcia Fajardo - Instruments, 2020 - mdpi.com
Superconducting magnets are an invaluable tool for scientific discovery, energy research,
and medical diagnosis. To date, virtually all superconducting magnets have been made from …

Cable-in-conduit conductors: lessons from the recent past for future developments with low and high temperature superconductors

L Muzzi, G De Marzi, A Di Zenobio… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review progress in the design of high field superconducting cable-in-conduit conductors
(CICCs) for fusion applications, with special attention to the results of recent key …

ITER breakdown and plasma initiation revisited

PC De Vries, Y Gribov - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper revisits a number of key aspects of plasma initiation, aiming to clarify concepts,
provide definitions and improve understanding, in view of ITER First Plasma operation. It …

The 4C code for the cryogenic circuit conductor and coil modeling in ITER

LS Richard, F Casella, B Fiori, R Zanino - Cryogenics, 2010 - Elsevier
A new tool–the 4C code–has been developed, which allows the thermal-hydraulic
simulation of the entire superconducting magnet system of the International Thermonuclear …

The use of Nb3Sn in fusion: lessons learned from the ITER production including options for management of performance degradation

N Mitchell, M Breschi, V Tronza - Superconductor Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The overall 30 year Nb 3 Sn conductor program for ITER provides an unusual
opportunity to look at the issues created by the application of novel Nb 3 Sn technology on a …